HPLIP on a server

Andy Leeman andy at leeman.ca
Sun May 10 10:52:27 UTC 2009


Here are the minimum system requirements from HP at
http://hplipopensource.com/node/295

Linux kernel 2.4.19 and above (2.6.x recommended).
GNU software tools are required to build from source code. This
includes the ANSI C compiler, ANSI C++ compiler and POSIX compliant
environment.
libusb 0.1.8 or higher.
ppdev/parport kernel modules for parallel port support.
GPL Ghostscript 7.05 or higher.
Foomatic 3.0.2 or higher.
Qt 3.x or higher for UI toolkit.
PyQt 3.14 or higher for Qt wrapper for Python.
Python 2.2 or higher and python-devel (Python 2.3+ for fax support)
Reportlab (optional-provides fax cover page support)
CUPS 1.1.15 or higher and cups-devel.
libjpeg 6b or higher and libjpeg-devel.
net-snmp 5.0.9 or higher and net-snmp-devel for network support.
CUPS DDK 1.2 or higher for dynamic PPD support.

HPLIP has been tested on most major Linux distributions.
>
> Does anyone knows if HPLIP will work on a machine without X?
>
>  Victor Mendon?a
> http://wazem.org/

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Andy Leeman
Londonderry NS




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